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Tourist agency sponsoring Juneteenth speech contest
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoApr. 26—FARRELL — A $2,000 Mercer County Tourist Promotion Agency grant aims to motivate youngsters to speak up for Juneteenth celebrations. The grant was awarded to Farrell schools to host ...
Military Book Review The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General,...
Strategy Page· 3 hours agoPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath gives us a fine biography of Mohammed Ali ben Sa'id (1836-1882). Born into wealth and privilege in the ancient African kingdom of Borno, he might ...
Lara Trump Says RNC Poll Watchers Will ‘Physically Handle The Ballots,’ Which They Are Not Allowed...
Black America Web· 2 days agoLast week, we reported that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it plans to deploy more than...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 2 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 6 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Juneteenth icon Opal Lee to receive honorary doctorate from SMU
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 6 days agoThe degree will be presented at SMU’s commencement ceremony, May 11. DALLAS — Opal Lee, best known...
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 4 days agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Colorado Springs Gazette· 7 days agoPUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time Magazine· 5 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the immoral racial wealth gap will remain ...